Omokri donates funds in support of Southern Kaduna victims

byNational Pivot -

Former aide to President Goodluck Jonathan, Reno Omokri, has said he has donated half a million naira to victims of the recent attack on Southern Kaduna community by Fulani He said his kind donation was made to the State's CAN Chairman, and Leader of the Muslim community in the region. The former aide also called on others to do the same.

Omokri made the revelation in a tweet on Friday.


He said, "I just donated half a million Naira (₦500,000), to Southern Kaduna mass killings victims. The money was paid to the CAN Chairman Kaduna Branch, Reverend John Hayab, and Sheikh Halley Maraya, leader of the Kaduna Muslim community. I normally would keep this donation secret, but I am making it public to encourage others to donate.

"I have seen with my eyes the scale of killings and destruction in Southern Kaduna. It is hell on Earth. Women, children and infants are slaughtered by herdsmen. Houses burnt. Communities destroyed. If you and I do not do something, who will? Please donate through Christian Association Of Nigeria 2000793432 First Bank."




Meanwhile, Southern Kaduna People's Union (SOKAPU), in response to the recent Fulani attack on the region, said all indications suggests there's a deliberate ploy with the support of Government, to inflict maximum harm on the region.




SOKAPU through its Spokesman, Luka Binniyat, said most of the recent attacks by Fulani herdsmen were carried out within the over two months the region was placed under lockdown by the Kaduna State government.

But in what appears to be a clear case of preferential treatment, or better still, the animal farm rule where some people are "more equal than others," those whom government said it wants to keep at bay by imposing the curfew, were actually from a special category of people known as "essential workers". This status perhaps, gave them the license to roam and attack freely while security operatives meant to protect the victims, watch with excitement, and provide cover for the assaiIants.

According to SOKAPU, on the night of the recent attacks at about 11pm, "trucks loads of armed Fulani miIitia made their way through miIitary check points under the curfew and stormed Apiashyim and Kibori villages" laying siege and doing damage.


If that is not astonishing enough, eye witnesses who flee and hid in maize farms, said "they saw what looked like an armored military truck pulled up at the village square followed by familiar military motor bikes while the attackers were busy kiIIing, but never made any attempt to stop them."

More interestingly, "The attackers operated for 5 hours between 11pm and 4am this morning before they left unchallenged."

In the face of these attacks, SOKAPU added, "We are inundated by daily cries for food, medicine and money, with rising cases of child malnutrition and kwashiorkor as parents cannot go out and look for food for their starving children. The sick are trapped at home. No one wants to risk the brutaIity of the military that are enforcing the curfew.



"Even if the curfew is lifted, freely grazing cattle herded by armed Fulani men have eaten up and trampled over thousands of hectares of grain farms, yam farms, sugar cane crops among others. This portends obvious hunger and increased poverty for our communities this year and the next."

SOKAPU concluded its statement saying, "For the records, we want to say that Governor Nasir el-Rufai of Kaduna state has tied up our law abiding people under an irrational, protracted curfew which is obviously intended to cause maximum harm to our communities."
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